Sydel Silverman
Sydel Silverman · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Anthropologist known for Italian peasant studies and leadership of the Wenner-Gren Foundation
1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA — 2019, New York City, USA
United States · Italy (fieldwork)
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Silverman was an American anthropologist known for her ethnographic studies of Italian peasant and town life and for her leadership of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, which she headed from 1987 to 1999. She championed the preservation of anthropology's documentary heritage. Born Sydel Finfer into a Jewish family in Chicago.
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Anthropologist known for Italian peasant studies and leadership of the Wenner-Gren Foundation
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